xvii, 147 pages : 24 cm

Papers presented at a workshop at the Academy on Feb. 15, 1992

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

A personal view of the history of American psychology / Seymour B. Sarason -- James McKeen Cattell, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Psychological Association, 1891-1902 / Michael M. Sokal -- An epistemological critique of experimentalism in psychology; or, Why G. Stanley Hall waited until William James was out of town to found the American Psychological Association / Eugene Taylor -- A history of the New York Branch of the American Psychological Association, 1903-1935 / Ludy T. Benjamin -- Joseph Jastrow: pioneer psychologist facing the "administrative peril" / Arthur L. Blumenthal -- Christine Ladd-Franklin's color theory: strategy for claiming scientific authority / Laurel Furumoto -- Recognition for women: the problem of linkage / Elizabeth Scarborough

The European influence on American psychology: 1892 and 1942 / Helmut E. Adler -- Historical perspectives on psychotherapy / Donald K. Freedheim -- G. Stanley Hall and Company: observations on the first 100 APA presidents / John D. Hogan -- Sitzfleisch 2: the Platzgeist and cognitive environmental psychology / Kurt Salzinger

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